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September 17, 2005

Palestinian Authority vs Palestinians

Palestinians throwing rocks at riot police... Troops firing weapons over the heads of the crowd in an attempt to disperse the crowd... nothing new about this, it's just the good old conflict in the Gaza Strip.

The only difference was that today, the troops were from the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, not Israel.
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Today's unrest is due to the fact that Palestinian forces sealed off five major breaches along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt today - their first real attempt to stem the flood of people, drugs, and weapons across that border since Israel withdrew from Gaza last week.

Plus there were shootouts over the best parking spaces. Seriously. (Hat tip to Patrick at Clarity & Resolve)

American Jihad shares a story that ran in the Jerusalem Post about the Palestinian Religious Scholars 1 Society decision to issue a fatwa forbidding normalization with Israel.;

Criticizing Egypt's agreement to deploy border guards along the border with the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian "scholars" said they were expecting the head of al-Azhar to issue a fatwa "calling for the mobilization of Muslim armies to expel the Jews from the rest of the lands of Palestine instead of deploying troops to defend the enemy's borders."

What a great way to respond to Israel's decision to leave the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. We at Atlas Blogged have discussed the bad attitude of the Palestinians before, here.

The PA does not have the juice to maintain control in its own territory, as discussed here previously. It is being suggested that the Palestinians may find themselves in the unusual position of having a civil war before they have an independent nation.

They say a watched pot never boils. But the whole world is watching the situation in Gaza, and it just keeps heating up day after day.

Wulf Posted by Wulf on September 17, 2005 at 04:19 PM

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